Comments on: U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu: “Global Warming Is the Greatest Challenge Facing Science”

By: Dan Pangburn

Dan Pangburn — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:15:40 +0000

Tom, Perhaps you should look again.

From 2001 through October, 2010 the atmospheric CO2 increased by 21.8% of the total increase from 1800 to 2001 while the average global temperature has not increased significantly and the trend of the average of the five reporting agencies from 2001 through 2009 is actually down. The 21.8% CO2 increase is the significant measurement, not the comparatively brief time period.

THE FACTORS THAT RESULTED IN THE 20th CENTURY GLOBAL TEMPERATURE RUN-UP HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED.

The contribution of atmospheric carbon dioxide is between small and insignificant. The time-integral of sunspot numbers and effective sea surface temperature are the main contributors.

A simple equation, with inputs of accepted measurements from government agencies, calculates the average global temperatures since 1895 with 88% accuracy (87.6% if CO2 is assumed to have no influence). See the equation, links to the source data, an eye-opening graph of the results and how they are derived in the pdfs at http://climaterealists.com/index.php?tid=145&linkbox=true (see especially the pdfs made public on 4/10/10 and 6/27/10).

By: Tom Fortner

Tom Fortner — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:35:55 +0000

I read Dan Pangburn’s article at http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/pangburn.html, the short entry above, and hundreds of climate change articles including the one referenced by him above. To state it simply, scientists overwhelmingly agree that the data show there is a very strong correlation coefficient between increasing CO2 levels and higher average climate temperatures over time. Clearly, with something as complex as global climate, for relatively short periods of time, CO2 levels may increase while temperatures fall, but looking at the trends over long periods of time and even most short ones (e.g. since the Industrial Revolution), it is obvious even to those of us who are not trained climate scientists that increasing levels of CO2 and higher temperatures go hand in hand.

By: Dan Pangburn

Dan Pangburn — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:47:43 +0000

James Hansen misapplied ‘feedback’ in his 1984 paper. That error has been propagated throughout the Climate Science community and has contributed substantially to the Global Warming Mistake. Those who understand ALL of the relevant science know that added atmospheric carbon dioxide does not significantly increase average global temperature. The issue exists because Climate Scientists appear to be unaware of the science that disproves AGW (it is not in their curriculum). Find out more from the pdfs that can be accessed at http://climaterealists.com/index.php?tid=145&linkbox=true .

Cost effective improvement in efficiency is just common sense and doesn’t need any government regulation.